Brand, Digital & Marketing Project Manager - Chicago, IL

Brand, Digital & Marketing Project Manager

Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid Duration: 6+ Months CTH Overview

The Marketing Department of Combined Insurance, a client company, works in a collaborative and close-knit environment that provides opportunities for growth, autonomy, and career progression.

We are looking for a highly organized project manager with a keen interest in digital platforms and managing marketing programs. This exciting role resides in the Brand, Digital & Marketing Services team and is the perfect opportunity for a mid-level manager with 3-5 years of experience.

Job Summary

The Project Manager will ensure the timely delivery of marketing projects, from intake and project development through production and completion. This detail-orientated person will create project plans, manage team capacity, interface with internal business owners, and help direct creative agencies and internal resources for a wide variety of projects. Additionally, the project manager will manage the digital platform for collateral deployment, direct implementation, and managing the vendor. The ideal candidate will be a highly organized professional able to identify problems, propose solutions and implement fixes. You will possess excellent communication skills and decision-making skills.

Job Responsibilities

• Manages cross-functional marketing plans with actionable, tasks, owners, and deadlines
• Assists in developing and implementing marketing programs to support products and other initiatives.
• Works individually or with a team in recommending action, scheduling, and planning projects, estimating cost and managing projects to completion.
• Coordinates with multiple internal and external stakeholders and gathers relevant information, including business goals, design/messaging information, output specifications, timing, and budget.
• Utilizing project management tools (i.e., Workfront, Jira), opens individual project tickets; communicates project timeline, scope and deliverables; and tracks the progress of marketing projects against due dates, identifying potential roadblocks as necessary.
• Creates and monitors business level metrics and looks for and executes opportunities to improve department efficiency and processes
• Provides ad-hoc marketing support.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in marketing, corporate communications, or related field
• 3-5+ years of Project Management experience for a Marketing, Product, or Creative team
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills required, with keen attention to detail
• Previous experience managing projects and communicating between departments, across all levels of an organization
• Enthusiastic self-starter with solution-driven resourcefulness
• A positive attitude toward teamwork and collaboration
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and work in a fast-paced environment under tight deadlines
• Collaborative team member and problem-solver

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience using Workfront
• Strong analytical and data skills preferred, with experience organizing large sets of information
• Must thrive working in a fast-paced, vibrant environment.
• Proven track record of taking ownership and delivering results.